Petrol.

**XRNR** · 21st January 2004, 12:03

Check this site out for updated round the country fuel prices.

See what the monopoly is handing out to us at the moment.

http://www.pricewatch.co.nz/

**XRNR** · 21st January 2004, 12:07

I would like to know what other petrol stations around the country this can be bought at from the pump.

Can be bought from BP Kumeu (just nth of Auckland).

What's your local?

**Firefight** · 21st January 2004, 15:11

Originally Posted by XRNR

I would like to know what other petrol stations around the country this can be bought at from the pump.

Can be bought from BP Kumeu (just nth of Auckland).

What's your local?

Challange station, Manukau rd Pukekohe. NZ$ 1.76 per Litre atm

Firefight

**Triki** · 25th January 2004, 02:56

Avgas is a bit different to racing fuel, unless you owne a plane and have a fuel card for an avgas pump which is normally restricted to pilots only, you wont be able to get avgas. avgas goes right up to 115 octane

**Firefight** · 25th January 2004, 05:58

Originally Posted by Triki

Avgas is a bit different to racing fuel, unless you owne a plane and have a fuel card for an avgas pump which is normally restricted to pilots only, you wont be able to get avgas. avgas goes right up to 115 octane

Have been able to buy it , with C ash @ Ardmore airstrip. only fuel that I would run in my Motox bike, but yes, I agree it is normally hard to get hold of..

firefight.

**wkid_one** · 25th January 2004, 08:53

Originally Posted by Firefight

Have been able to buy it , with C ash @ Ardmore airstrip. only fuel that I would run in my Motox bike, but yes, I agree it is normally hard to get hold of..

firefight.

You can get Race Gas from a lot of Mobil Stations now and the Challenge by Puke.

You don't need a plane to get Av Gas - you can also get it with a boat.

MOst people when they refer to Av Gas - actually mean Race Fuel

**Triki** · 25th January 2004, 11:30

if you get caught walking out onto the apron with a gas can you will get in the shit. any one ever used tolulene, i have a cousin who sells race fuels and lubes, he does all the WRC cars when they come over here, and some of the privateers us this tolulene stuff mixed with regular pump gas, its ment to beef up the octane i fare bit, but i hear its tough on rubber parts.

**XRNR** · 25th January 2004, 18:54

Originally Posted by Triki

if you get caught walking out onto the apron with a gas can you will get in the shit...

Maybe true, but I do it all the time, even pull up to the pump on my street bike & pour it in, no worries....

Originally Posted by Triki

... any one ever used tolulene,

Tolulene, an anti-knock agent. Not me personally but a friend used to mix it into his fuel on a highcomp motor.

Me, I'm lazy and prefer to use the premix as I'm no chemist & don't know all the other ingredients that might be useful.

**JohnBoy** · 9th September 2004, 14:01

when i use to live in welly i ran av gas. when there are price spikes on 91 & 96 it takes ages for the price of av gas to be affected, so sometimes (back then, not sure now) it was cheaper to run av than standard.
the local airport would sell it as long as it went into a can (they didnt care what happened to it after then) and that you signed a book saying that you would not use it on the road (yeah right).
if you are having issues getting it goto a small airfield, they are more inclined to sell it to anyone.

i have run av and race gas in my bike and i must admit that the av runs better, my old zed loves the the high oct stuff.
dose anyone out there know it race gas is leadded?

**Blakamin** · 9th September 2004, 14:29

toluene is also used in certain paint thinners
and if you were going to try that, you may as well try methyl ethyl keytone.. MEK... or to refer to it buy its most known name... Gunwash!

**FROSTY:Me** · 13th September 2004, 19:39

The shell station in newton gully used to sell avgas -don't know if they still do

**marty** · 13th September 2004, 19:47

Originally Posted by Blakamin

toluene is also used in certain paint thinners
and if you were going to try that, you may as well try methyl ethyl keytone.. MEK... or to refer to it buy its most known name... Gunwash!

NO. DON"T USE MEK. IT IS WAY MORE TOXIC THAN TOLULENE. it will dissolve 2 pack paint in about 2 seconds flat, not to mention rubber, plastics, gloves, skin etc. we use it on aircraft, and it is a totally respected chemical.

**scumdog** · 13th September 2004, 20:43

My F100 is 11:1 compression and NEEDS avgas to allow me to "boot it" without it sounding like a Jamaican steel drum band (pinking).
It is a 50-50 mix with regular gas.
Switching from points to Petronix electronic ignition meant I did not have so much pinking, - my 2c worth

**Mongoose** · 13th September 2004, 23:58

Originally Posted by scumdog

My F100 is 11:1 compression and NEEDS avgas to allow me to "boot it" without it sounding like a Jamaican steel drum band (pinking).
It is a 50-50 mix with regular gas.
Switching from points to Petronix electronic ignition meant I did not have so much pinking, - my 2c worth

Pffffft, 2 cents worth, have you seen the price? How far will that get Ya?

**Blakamin** · 14th September 2004, 08:44

Originally Posted by marty

NO. DON"T USE MEK. IT IS WAY MORE TOXIC THAN TOLULENE. it will dissolve 2 pack paint in about 2 seconds flat, not to mention rubber, plastics, gloves, skin etc. we use it on aircraft, and it is a totally respected chemical.

I was only joking about useing MEK... might as well run a can of aerostart!